Sentence examples for about the lay of from inspiring English sources
"I think the format of the meeting was set up to be generally about the lay of the land going forward," Kennedy continued.
But if the defenders decide that declarer must guess what to do to get home, they will strive to mislead declarer about the lay of the land.
"I can help Hollywood understand why the comic book content is working and meanwhile understand enough about the lay of the land to give good story notes and be helpful in picking the right screenwriter".
Like its predecessors it is an unerring thesaurus of gestural tells, a trove of briskly rendered asides ("We shook hands limply, in the manner of a cold prisoner exchange on the Potsdam bridge"); but it is also full of unheeded warnings about the lay of the narrative land.
Anyone curious about the lay of the land in Algeria or Tajikistan can get answers, and a dash of local color, in Mr. Khanna's succinct chapters, which envelop the reader in a whirlwind of facts and figures, some eye-opening, others merely perplexing.
Not that very much about the lay of the land at Ft. Sam Houston is secret; the base is cheek by jowl with a large city, it gets many civilian visitors, its web site includes a map as detailed as your average college-campus plan, and the Pentagon doesn't mind that the whole place is clearly shown in the satellite photos that are a few clicks away on Google Maps and elsewhere.
With what light remained, Buford rode the countryside about, getting the lay of the land and visualizing what was to come on the morrow.
Skirting the southern headland, I ask about the lie of the land.
A boy brought up on a farm here, as Heinrich Rohrer was, coping with cows on one steep incline after another, naturally thought about the lie of the land.
Despite a promise to run a positive campaign, he whinged repeatedly about the "lies" of Mr Romney's high-spending super-PAC and vowed to get even in New Hampshire.
How do these people continue to complain about the lies of Nixon and Johnson when they seem merely to have re-engineered Vietnam-era doublespeak for purposes of chintzy sophistry like this?
